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Projar Golden Grow Easy Planter is an excellent growing medium consisting of coco peat. Lichen Group is now the proud distributor for this amazing growing medium in Africa. Here are some images from the Madikwe Berry farm. You may ask why you should use coco peat as a growing medium, and specifically why the South African farmer should choose our…

Blueberries are a popular berry, sweet, juicy and versatile, but in the Western Cape, it’s more than just a berry. The Western Cape government has revealed that these tiny berries are a key driver of job creation because the world has an appetite for the fruit. The statistics reveal that there’s been significant growth in the demand for blueberries and…

A group of Russian scientists have successfully revived two species of tiny worms that they discovered suspended in an icy chunk of Siberian permafrost. The worms, known as nematodes or more commonly as roundworms, had been frozen for up to 42,000 years, since a time when much of the planet was covered in ice. But they weren’t dead – just…

History The evolution of NEWater has spanned over a period of three decades although it may sound like an overnight success for Singapore. How It Started Singapore’s first water masterplan was drawn up in 1972. In 1974, PUB built a pilot plant, which was a precursor of today’s NEWater Factory, to turn treated used water into drinking water. However, we…

In 2005, when citrus greening was discovered in orange trees in south Florida, the insidious little carrier bug, the Asian citrus psyllid, was already making its way through the state infecting and killing thousands of acres of citrus trees.

SOUTH Africa’s stocks and currency inched up yesterday, cheering the stronger than ex‐ pected gross domestic product (GDP), which recorded the strongest expansion since the first quarter of 2015 in the past quarter.

In the summer of 2015, Pedro Torres Plaza founded Horticultorres S. de R.L. de C.V., a new company active in the field providing horticultural supplies and consulting to the Mexican greenhouse industry.

Agenda 21 Chapter 18 includes demand management, desalinization, water reuse/recycling, groundwater extraction. Do you know what it does NOT include? Dams – just like the water management plans in Part 1.

The politicians and media teamed up to once again give us a very predictable version of events that they saw fit for public consumption, conveniently omitting some glaring realities about their own complicity.

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Lichen Growing Mediums is the exclusive agent to a number of suppliers that provide products and services to the mushroom and growing farming industry in Africa. Additionally, Lichen also offers water treatment solutions as well as general logistics services.